A review by missamandamae
Disgruntled by Asali Solomon

3.0

What a sad book. It's not exceptionally tragic, but there's just a cloud of sadness over the whole thing. We meet Kenya as a young girl in the 80s, living with her parents - her long-suffering mother a librarian, her father a black rights activist who has an obsession with Frank Lloyd Wright's butler who set fire to his house and killed anyone who tried to escape the blaze. We follow Kenya as she grows up, experiences different worlds, and tries to evolve into her own person. Quite a bit of heartbreak entails, too. A very real story of growing up.